Growing With Jesus: 16 Half-Day, Full-Day and Overnight Retreats That Help Children Celebrate and Share the Light of Christ

Children's Books

Hakowski, Maryann

Religions

Ave Maria Pr

Decide to Forgive: Director's Manual

Religion & Spirituality

Developing Faith is a series of mini-courses that forms the catechetical centerpiece of a comprehensive and complete youth ministry model for adolescents. The Developing Faith series is designed to fit comfortably into many different programming schedules. Each mini-course includes eight sessions, each approximately 150 minutes in length. The sessions are clearly labeled in parts and movements that allow for much freedom to adapt the mini-courses to many time-frames, settings, and existing program calendars. Sr. Kieran Sawyer has pioneered a process of faith development that includes the various activities that make up a successful youth ministry program: theological input, dialoguing, faith sharing, prayer experiences, service opportunities and intergenerational participation. These features are included within each session. In part or whole, the sessions can be used for youth group meetings, religion classes, retreats, days of recollection, peer ministry meetings, small faith community gatherings, and so forth. Used in any of these ways, the Developing Faith series contributes to and is indeed a foundation for an expansive and engaging total youth ministry program. About This Mini-Course Decide to Forgive is a mini-course that explores the need for reconciliation and forgiveness in human relationships. In eight complete sessions, the teens will examine these and other issues: • How the words "I am sorry" are a good start in repairing a broken relationship • The tangible benefits of incorporating the seven virtues into our lives • The meaning and do-ability of radical forgiveness • How to let go of personal resentments • How to develop an informed Christian conscience • Techniques for dealing with conflict and improving communication • Why true Catholicism is inclusionary while racism is exclusionary • The benefits of celebrating sacramentally sorrow for our sins

Decide to Forgive: Participant Book

Vines and Branches, volume 1, includes twenty-eight reproducible handouts containing prayer services, learning activities, reflections, and discussion questions. The retreats are designed to help young people gain a better sense of self, build relationships with others, and grow closer to God. The five retreat themes are spirituality, confirmation, relationships, the parables, and prayer. --- from book's back cover

Vine and Branches (Resources for Youth Retreats, Vol. 1)

St Marys Pr

How do I pray? Is there a right way to pray? PrayerWays, a practical aid for students who wish to develop their prayer and spiritual life, emphasizes experiencing prayer as well as learning about it. Written in a simple, accessible style, this one-semester course for eleventh and twelfth graders offers background and an explanation of different prayer forms, with reflections and activities for students to try alone or in groups. Topics include "What is prayer?" "Giving God a joyful heart," and "Dwelling on the mystery of God." The full-color text includes photos and original artwork to help students connect to the holy mystery of prayer. The teaching manual, by Maryann Hakowski, fully supports the student text and includes prayers, prayer services, review questions and answers, student activities, discussion questions, role-play situations, suggestions for interviews and guest speakers, student handouts, and much more.

Teaching Manual for PrayerWays

Worship & Devotion

SAINT MARY'S PRESS

Vine and Branches (Resources for Youth Retreats Vol 2)

If you're looking for exciting and meaningful ways to pray with your teens, Pathways to Praying with Teens is just the right guidebook. Each chapter features a prayer form to enhance the young person's experience, such as music, drama, and dance; storytelling and audiovisual aids; scriptural, shared, and quiet prayer; and traditional prayer.

Pathways to Praying with Teens

Addresses stress, peacemakers, celebrating life, the Beatitudes, and relationships.

Vine and Branches (Resources for Youth Retreats, Vol. 3)

New Age & Spirituality

Today's young people are hungry for the word of God. Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth is filled with a wide variety of relevant, action-oriented resources to help feed that hunger with God's word in the Sunday Scriptures. For each Sunday's lectionary reading of cycles A, B, and C, resources are included for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time, based on lectionary and Scripture citations. A synopsis of the Scripture reading and a directed activity are also included, on themes that relate to teens, such as being open to God's will, beating temptation, and forgiving others. An index of themes and an index of Gospel citations round out each book. An excellent resource for youth ministers, high school religion teachers, parish leaders, and liturgists, Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth: Cycle B is for 2009 and every third year thereafter.

Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth: Cycle B: Lectionary-Based Resources for Youth Ministry

Today's young people are hungry for the word of God. Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth is filled with a wide variety of relevant, action-oriented resources to help feed that hunger with God's word in the Sunday Scriptures. For each Sunday's lectionary reading of cycles A, B, and C, resources are included for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time, based on lectionary and Scripture citations. A synopsis of the Scripture reading and a directed activity are also included, on themes that relate to teens, such as being open to God's will, beating temptation, and forgiving others. An index of themes and an index of Gospel citations round out each book. An excellent resource for youth ministers, high school religion teachers, parish leaders, and liturgists, Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth: Cycle C is for 2007 and every third year thereafter.

Sharing the Sunday Scriptures with Youth: Cycle C: Lectionary-Based Resources for Youth Ministry

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